{"id":13996,"date":"2022-01-16T20:35:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T20:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep"},"modified":"2022-01-16T20:53:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T20:53:58","slug":"blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep","title":{"rendered":"Blame PF for retrogressive clauses in the Constitution \u2013 FODEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>THE Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) says PF had an opportunity to give the country a constitution with good clauses but they failed. FODEP executive director George Chimembe says the PF was in a hurry to govern, therefore, failed to construct a good constitution for the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PF should be blamed for formulating retrogressive clauses like the one that caused the cancellation of the Kabwata byelection. We didn\u2019t have enough time to go through the Constitution,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cThe PF regime had an opportunity to give us a constitution with good clauses, but they failed. We should blame the PF as they were the ones that came up with the clauses. People pleaded with the president tc wait but they were in a hurry to govern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chimembe said the PF should be held accountable for the lacunas in the Constitution. He added that the party was advised by stakeholders not to hurry the process but they went ahead and rushed it.<\/p>\n<p>Chimembe prodded the new dawn government to learn something from the previous government by involving the people and all stakeholders in constitutional reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not wait for 2026. We need a document by 2024 as we do not have a good Constitution. Let\u2019s involve people in the formulation and not allow politicians to hijack the process,\u201d said Chimembe<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. THE Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) says PF had an opportunity to give the country a constitution with good clauses but they failed. FODEP executive director George Chimembe says the PF was in a hurry to govern, therefore, failed to construct a good constitution for the country. \u201cThe PF should be blamed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-13996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blame PF for retrogressive clauses in the Constitution \u2013 FODEP - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) says PF had an opportunity to give the country a constitution with good cl ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blame PF for retrogressive clauses in the Constitution \u2013 FODEP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) says PF had an opportunity to give the country a constitution with good cl ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-16T20:35:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-16T20:53:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/01\/img-61e485cb9f7f1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Blame PF for retrogressive clauses in the Constitution \u2013 FODEP\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-16T20:35:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-16T20:53:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep\"},\"wordCount\":245,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/01\/img-61e485cb9f7f1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/blame-pf-for-retrogressive-clauses-in-the-constitution-fodep\",\"name\":\"Blame PF for retrogressive clauses in the Constitution \u2013 FODEP - 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